Buttermilk Substitute

By Addie

Making a recipe that calls for buttermilk? Use this simple substitute, and you won't need to buy any.

Ingredients

• Milk (just under one cup)
• 1 Tablespoon white vinegar or lemon juice

Preparation

Step 1

1. Place a Tablespoon of white vinegar or lemon juice in a liquid measuring cup.

2. Add enough milk to bring the liquid up to the one-cup line.

3. Let stand for five minute. Then, use as much as your recipe calls for.
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REVIEWS:

Lemon Juice DOES work.My mom makes buttermilk pancakes from scratch every weekend, and she always uses the milk and lemon trick. It's always worked. She uses lemon juice from a bottle, so maybe fresh lemon doesn't work.

I won't have to buy buttermilk ever again! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe on how to make buttermilk. As another reviewer mentioned, the buttermilk always spoils before I could use the entire carton. Now I can make it fresh myself.

I will never buy buttermilk again! This works great. I use it for buttermilk pancakes and they are delicious. I used to buy buttermilk and it would go to waste as I only needed a cup and would never use a whole carton before it spoiled. Thank you.

I was in the process of making a lowfat banana bread and blueberry recipe. I noticed that the recipe called for buttermilk. I didn't have this in the fridge. So, I went online to see how to make my own. Using the simple recipe calling for milk and white vinegar, I continued on to make this delicious cake. Thank you very much for having this "how to recipe" online.

A life saver - it worked! Thank you for posting this recipe, well helping hand subsitute. I needed buttermilk for a biscuit recipe, and now I have a new kitchen helper.

So Simple. All I needed was a 1/2 cup of buttermilk. This was really simple to do & saved me money. It tasted great in my banana bread!

Great substitute. I used this substitute when making pancakes this morning and thought it was great! Since it will sometimes be wasteful to buy buttermilk, I will definitely use this recipe again. Thanks for posting it!

This was grrreat substitute.....I knew there was one but I didn't wanna take the time to rummage thru my cookbooks to find the answer......this was so easy to find and I was thrilled to find it.......I did think it was a mixture of milk and vinegar but not sure and not sure about how much of each......thanks for saving me the time and money as I don't bake that often and cannot use a whole quart of buttermilk.......this was a blessing.........thanks!!

I was supposed to have buttermilk for a cake recipe that I had to make for today. I didn't want to drive 15 minutes to a grocery store for just buttermilk (I end up not using the whole bottle or carton anyway). So, I found this substitute. A little bit leery, I tried it. It works!! Cake was moist and this tip worked like magic. I will never have to buy or waste buttermilk again! Thanks!

REALLY REALLY HELPFUL!!!! I was trying to bake cinnamon rolls and noticed we ran out of buttermilk...........I search all over the web trying to see what could substitue the buttermilk a Whaam! This popped up! They came out perfect!

Works great! I too was making Irish soda bread and needed buttermilk. I used this and everything turned out great! I will definitely be remembering this one!

Buttermilk so easy! I was about to make Irish Soda Bread. Lo and behold I had ALL the ingredients except the buttermilk. That would hae required a special run out to the store, so I decided to look up and there it was, so easy! This was perfect. Thanks.

A GREAT substitute! I used this for making my Brown Sugar crumble cake when I didn't have any buttermilk. I let it sit out for about half an hour as opposed to 5 minutes. It was great and I felt that my results came out better using this substitute. Thank You!

Buttermilk? NOT!!! This recipe is making SOUR MILK not buttermilk! Real buttermilk has many benefits in baking and cooking. Sour milk just doesn't cut it.

I had never seen buttermilk powder in my area and got the bright idea after seeing it on a web-site that I would order a bag, paid $5.90 +postage for it.
I love to use buttermilk in breads and muffins, but thought this would save me having to keep buttermilk on hand and taking a chance of not using all of it.
I tried this recipe and it taste so much better than the powder buttermilk mix and one normally always has white vinegar and milk on hand. I loved it and it's more economical to make. This is a keeper.

Bot to detract from your idea, but REAL buttermilk is easily cultured from whole milk or even powdered milk. Just add a small part of store-bought buttermilk to the milk and let it sit out overnight in room temp."

This is just a substitute. Unfortunately, if it's the texture you need when using real buttermilk, you will be saddened. I looked this up when in the middle of making pancakes I realized my buttermilk was bad...my recipe makes almost marshmallow fluff texture whipped up beautiful batter. Using the substitute it was nothing like it usually is. Flabby, slightly rubbery texture... The taste was fabulous, though, so you could definitely use this for some recipes.